Fallout gameplay

The Funcom countdown we stumbled across last week recently ticked down to zero, and I'm sorry to say that it is not a Stalker MMO. It still looks like it might be cool, though. It's a "tactical adventure game" called Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden that blends turn-based combat with real-time exploration on a ruined, "post-human Earth." The unfortunate state of things in Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden was brought about by the combined effects of climate change, economic crisis, some sort of pandemic, and a nuclear war. Just to be sure. With humanity finally off the board, mutants have stepped in to take over. The game is being developed by Swedish studio Bearded Ladies, whose members include Ulf Andersson, a designer on games including Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, Payday, and Payday 2. "Our goal is to blend the deep and tactical combat of XCOM with branching storylines that unfold as you explore overgrown forests and abandoned cities with your team of Mutants," … [Read more...] about Funcom’s Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is a blend of XCOM, Fallout, and Daffy Duck

About a month ago, the mod team known as Road to Liberty released a trailer for its Fallout 3 remake mod dubbed “Capital Wasteland,” showing fans how the project looks within the Creation Engine used for the most recent entry in the post-apocalyptic RPG franchise, Fallout 4. Now the team has provided an update on the mod by putting out some fresh pre-alpha gameplay highlighting Capital Wasteland’s recreation of one of the original title’s quests and its Metro Tunnels. As displayed below in the latest video for Road to Liberty’s Fallout 3 remake mod, the project looks to be making huge progress, with the Metro Tunnels appearing to be gloriously destroyed and disheveled with a nice current-gen polish. What’s more is that it’s fun to see the Lone Wanderer come across one of the original title’s main quests – that is, Galaxy News Radio – after stumbling out of the Metro Tunnels and into the streets to help the elite Brotherhood … [Read more...] about Fallout 3 Remake Mod Showcases New Gameplay in Fallout 4 Engine

Last time we looked at Capital Wasteland, the Fallout 4 mod unofficially recreating Fallout 3 inside the newer game, the team behind it were showing off a montage of environments. That’s nice and all, but it’s a stage many remake mods for many games have reached before fizzling out. Now they’re showing: no, look, we really are doing it. A new gameplay video shows a 12-minute chunk of Fallout 3’s main quest with NPCs, action, dialogue, scripted events, quest progression, and other things that make the game tick. It does indeed look a lot like Fallout 3 inside Fallout 4. Observe: You know, I had thought “But Fallout 3 basically looks like this” then I checked and no, no it does not. Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind. While FO3’s sickly green tinge is gone, by the way, the team have talked about “experimenting with” Fallout 4’s weather options to still instil a grime tone. The latest dev blog post, from earlier this … [Read more...] about Capital Wasteland looks a lot like Fallout 3 in Fallout 4

By Sherif Saed, Monday, 19 February 2018 19:59 GMT Phoenix Point, the XCOM spiritual successor from series creator Julian Gollop, looks to mix the classic XCOM formula with Fallout mechanics. Phoenix Point has been in development for around two years, but it’s been a while since we’ve seen new gameplay. Julian Gollop was on hand at the PC Gamer Weekender to demo the latest build of the game, and it looks as great as ever. Phoenix Point is turn-based strategy in the vein of XCOM, but the combat is more interesting because you get to target your enemies’ different limbs, taking them out and preventing certain attacks. The gameplay below (via PC Gamer) shows a full match, rotating between the typical XCOM archetypes and their movement abilities. You have a jetpack-equipped trooper, the long-range snipers, shotgun-wielding assaulter and so on. Standard abilities like overwatch also return, though many of the abilities seem to rely on a resource called Willpower. The … [Read more...] about XCOM creator’s Phoenix Point looks great in new gameplay footage

Fallout 4’s Boston Commonwealth doesn’t really seem like the ideal place to start a new hobby. Post-apocalyptic Beantown is kind of a scary place if you’re extremely susceptible to jump scares, like I am. What I found over the equivalent of 20 full days exploring the map’s artfully destroyed buildings and ransacked landmarks was that my favorite part of the game wasn’t the guns, quest lines or the new NPC friends I made along the way. It was the little things. I mean that quite literally: the pool balls, pepper mills, bowling pins, coffee tins stamped with cherubic boys and spools of cotton thread that filled my inventory were far more interesting to me than tearing up mobs of Super Mutants or even finding my long-lost son. The Commonwealth transformed from a terrifying possible future filled with radioactive ghouls and bloodthirsty raiders to a place of calm once I made this realization, evoking and encouraging thoughtful order. I’ve lived with … [Read more...] about I spent 453 hours in Fallout 4 and all I got was this stinkin’ inner peace